Egypt - February 1

The short summary of this day is a short drive of about 4 hours from Luxor to Hurghada - a beach town on the Red Sea, just across from Sharm-al-Sheikh. The bus broke down in the middle, but was finally fixed by our driver. It was great to see the water. The town looked a lot like Sharm - tons of hotels and developments, but actually several times larger. What was disappointing were the beaches - no sand at all.

A few of us found a cafe by the water, had calamari etc. The waiter had no idea which country has Lebanon and Syria to its north, Jordan to its East and Egypt to its south. When told it was Israel, he explained that he learned in school we want to rule from the Euphrates to the Nile. Danny gave him a long lecture about the lies they were fed, complete with a bonus about the need for birth control in Egypt. The guy was so happy he requested a night class from Danny and they continued in a cafe after dinner. This was the worst hotel we got, but given that it was last minute (almost) no one complained.



After desperately searching for t-shirts and finding them all too ugly to buy, some food shopping for the next day (rumor had it that Cairo airport had no food left in its restaurants), many in the group ended up dancing in the hotel's nightclub. One of the worst singers ever, but a lot of fun nonetheless!